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Craig Caldwell , Ph.D., Digital Media
Craig Caldwell comes from Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia where he was Head of the largest Film School in Australia. The Griffith Film School is known for its interdisciplinary collaboration in Film, Animation and Games with close industry connections.
Dr. Caldwell received the first creative Ph.D. in computer graphics and animation from the Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design at Ohio State University in 1989. He earned an MFA is in Painting, Drawing and Photography from University of Florida.
His recent industry experience has been as 3D Technology Specialist in Disney Academy for Walt Disney Feature Animation in Burbank, CA (Tarzan, Dinosaur, Atlantis, Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt) and Creative Training at Electronic Arts, the largest games company in the world.
His academic background includes Head of the Media Arts department at University of Arizona and Associate Director of the U of A Triestman New Media Center. At Northern Arizona University he was a Professor in the School of Art and Design and Co-Director of the NAU Visualization Lab with the Computer Science Department.